Is this a safe overclock?

[Firearm2112]

Just overclocked my MSI GTX 760. Are these safe numbers?

 

[Laederem]

Yea you're good

 

You have to really try to fuck something up with an Nvidia card. 

[RelentlessAF]

You have to test it to know, Play a game or two for a few hours and see if the drivers crash or if the temps get too high etc...

[CoolaxGaming]

Reduce memory to 300 and core to 100. I wouldnt mess that much if I didnt liquid cool....

[MegaDave91]

If you haven't stress tested that overclock for stability - do so first and report back.

[WinNut]

Test it. Play a game for a while and see if the GPU drivers crash or there's a system overheat.

[flibberdipper]

As long as it doesn't crash, yes.

[Fate]

If temps are fine and there's no artifacting after a while of stress testing, you're gucci.

[TheRetiredSlave]

Reduce memory to 300 and core to 100. I wouldnt mess that much if I didnt liquid cool....

 

The 760 has a stock memory clock of 6.0 Ghz (effective). Since VRAM chips don't output very much heat at all, 374 isn't too high at all.. Similar idea with the core clock. As long as it doesn't crash under load, it's safe.

 

Frankly, as long as the temperatures under load stay in a safe range, there isn't any reason why the clock shouldn't be higher.. The only difference between watercooling and aircooling will be the noise levels (depending on cooler/rads/fans/etc).

[CoolaxGaming]

The 760 has a stock memory clock of 6.0 Ghz (effective). Since VRAM chips don't output very much heat at all, 374 isn't too high at all.. Similar idea with the core clock. As long as it doesn't crash under load, it's safe.

 

Frankly, as long as the temperatures under load stay in a safe range, there isn't any reason why the clock shouldn't be higher.. The only difference between watercooling and aircooling will be the noise levels (depending on cooler/rads/fans/etc).

.... Water cooling can SIGNIFICANTLY reduce load temps, providing higher headroom to Overclock

[TheRetiredSlave]

.... Water cooling can SIGNIFICANTLY reduce load temps, providing higher headroom to Overclock

 

Which is exactly why I said "as long as the temperatures under load stay in a safe range".. A +125 boost to core clock is not a problem on aircooling if the temperatures under load stay in a safe range. If boosting the core clock causes the temperatures to go outside a safe range, then you are correct that watercooling could allow for more headroom.

 

Both watercooling and aircooling are both effectively the same thing. In either situation, you're dispersing heat into the air and the chip will run higher than room temperature..

Watercooling does give the advantage of being able to pull heat farther away from the heatsource (the CPU/GPU), which does allow you to put in much larger heatsink arrays (i.e. tons of radiators). While you're right in saying that this will allow for higher overclockability (in situations in which the overclocking is only thermally bound), my disagreement is in the idea that a full loop would be necessary for a +125 core and +374 mem on a single GTX 760.

 

Like I said in my last post, the only real difference (in this situation!) would be the noise levels.